Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-01
FARM NOTES.

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dry place. feed meat, and give piece
of ginger daily.
To procure eggs, avoid over feed
ing, and feed meat and milk, with
plenty of grain at night, emitting
corn.
For lice, dust Persian insect powder
freely in every crack and crevice, and
on the bodies of the hens among the
| feathers.
The -Anser,can Garden says bubach
powder blown into ant hills with g
strong bellows will kill or drive away
the insects.
or'indigestion, give the birds plen-
ty of sharp gravel, and also a tea
spoonful OF fenugreek, in the soft food,
for every ten hens.
Canada's honey crop is estimated to
be an average of only twenty pounds
to the colony. Many colonies will need
liberal feeding to carry them over the
winter in safety.
For soft shell eggs, put the hens at
work scratching. as it indicates they
are too fat. Soft eggs, apoplexy, egg
bound, and nearly all such diseases,
are due to the hens being too fat.
You can cut off the combs of fowls,
if You prefer. Use a sharp knife; cut
off both combs and wattles. To pre-
vent bleeding, first wash the head with
strong alum water, and then sprinkle
with powdered tannin.
For swelled eyes, battle the head
with warm solution made by dis
solving u teaspoonful OF powdered
boracic acid in pint of water, and
then anoint with few drops of glyc
crime. Repeat this daily.
For roup, dissolve a teaspoonful of
chloride of lime in pint of water, and
give the bird D teaspoonful of the so.
luton. Burn tar and turpentine in
the poultry house after the fowls have
gone on the roost at night
In storing onions spread them out
so that the air can get to them. They
will not keep well if piled up, but in a
cool place there will be no difficulty
with them if they be spread in thin
layers. No decayed onions should
be allowed, as they may damage all.
In their native hills it is said that
the Cheviot sheep are excelled by none.
They are as large as the Cotswolds,
while the mutton is considered better
and the fleece finer and closer. On
good pasture the fleece grows finer and
sells for a higher price than when the
animals are fed on coarse grass.
The ideal soil in which to set plant
is one that is moist without being
water-soaked, neither too dry nor too
wet. In such soil even poor plant
will take root. The plant will make
its own root just as cutting does.
For setting in dry soil the plant should
be we'll rooted and stocky, as it must
depend on the roots it already has for
q start.
The Middletown On. " Argass says
q swarm of bees for a. year made a
home in the piazza Of a residence
there, and on investigation it was dis
of getting under the floor of one of the
bedrooms, and fifty pounds of honey
and quantity Of brood comb were
taken from between two of the floor
beams.
Nothing is more easily grown than
a grapevine. It will almost take care
of itself, if you will give it reasona-
bic chance; and then, having been
trimmed on very simple principles for
three years, you can let it run over
tree, u shed, a barn, or trellis. Keep
its feet clean of weeds, and we'll shod
with ashes ard manure, and you will
have enough to eat.
A Nebraska farmer, who has been
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the plants raised one spring are likely
to be killed the following winter. If
they survive, however, they will De
strong enough to live through succeed
ing winters, and will produce large
amount OF foliage. This alfalfa patch
afforded excellent feed last summer
while the drought put stop to the
growth of gross and clover.
Prof. Stewart says very valuable
use Of faxseed can be made ly grind
ing one bushel with eight bushels of
oats, CT all the 1axsecd that can be
ground with oats without sticking to
the millstones. Then mix one hun
dred pounds of this ground oats and
faxseed with two hundred pounds of
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feed for young pigs, and it will be
good for them all the time up to fat
tening; ard besides this they viii be
smooth, rangy pigs, making good
roasters at all times.
Not one horse in ten is properly
broken to lead. Colts halter broken
and accustomed to lead by the side OF
their mothers, to buggy or wagon,
when driven are generally thoroughly
broken to lead. 1t is very necessary
part of the education of a colt to sub
nit to the halter. Halter broken
should mean to lead everywhere and
on all occasions without pulling back
or shying about. a lesson now and
then 10 your colts will be remembered
and the oftener the lesson is repeated
the better it is learned.
A correspondent of Gardening Itlsts-
trateG states that he planted on his
third of an acre lawn, Siberian crab,
two green cages, two apple trees, q
Bigarrea cherry, and three May Dukes,